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Whatever you use anchor them very well, they will float.

Commonly called a curb box or a b box, normally the Mueller boxes have a pentagon head bolt in the middle to remove the cap. Then a b box key is used on the curb stop valve below, the valve can be shallow or deep depending on the frost line in the area.

You can see the threads for a plug in the side hole in the first pic.

Usually when the valve is too far back in the wall an extension kit is needed for the handle too, replacing the screws with longer ones may get the trim escutcheon attached but doesn't fix the handle. It may be why the handle turns past it's stop, it's not engaging the cartridge stem.

#2 or #4, #4 will be a little easier for a novice to solder. Cleanliness is your friend when soldering copper, clean the pipe and fitting real good, a little flux and solder away.

That chart is for iron pipe you're not using iron pipe, you have copper tube. Solder a 1 1/2" DWV X MIP adapter on it and be done with it, they can be had in cast or wrot copper . As for the rest of the piping you have many different choices of materials and connection types to pick from, SCH...

Are you sure you're dealing with 1 1/4" pipe, any chart I look at says that 1 1/2" copper is 1.625 O.D. , If you're measuring the pipe at a 1.660 O.D. seems like it's 1 1/2" ?

Myself being a 45 year retired Plumber I'm going to be the first to say " call a Plumber " , there's a lot that needs fixing under that sink, like the S trap drain, overuse of hose clamps, and Fernco's. A decent Plumber can make it work with the S trap and clean up and repipe the rest in an...

Work from the basket strainer down, tighten tailpiece to basket strainer, pipe dope on both faces of the tailpiece washer not the threads, install tube from wall, don't tighten the nut, adjust wall piece to meet trap, fit u bend and tighten both nuts, tighten nut at the wall, light coating of...

The tub spout at the bottom of the shower is a toe tester, test the water temp with your foot before turning on the head.

Have you looked at maybe a bathroom lav sink, might be one that would fit unless the disposal needs to go back in.

The Jr. / Jr. Duo strainers will need a 1 1/2" flanged tailpiece in the material of your choice. It's a common basket strainer used on many bar sinks and some RV showers.

Replaced 10 door slabs in my 60 year old house 10 years ago with solid 6 panel doors that I picked up used off of Craigs List, about $200 total for all 10 from various sellers. Transferred the hinge locations from the old to new, cut them with a router and a chisel. Some of the hinge pockets...

The quality of the work doesn't look bad, galv. and C.I.. work is a dying art. An Apprentice today would be crying that his arms and back are sore from packing lead joints and swinging pipe wrenches, along with all the oily pipe machince work that was involved.

First picture, the area of the 2 stacked tees is the vent for the tubs drum trap ( I don't see one between the trap and the tees), it goes up and 90's towards the lav, picks up the lav vent and then over to tie into the stack in a wall at about 42" above the floor with a 4 x 2 or 4 x 1 1/2 tee...

If you want to spend some money look at the A.O. Smith Cyclone heaters, 50 gallon heaters that recover 86 to 116 gallons per hour at a 100 deg rise.

It's typical of many homes in the area you live in that we did when I was working still. The small slanted roof is just a detail that they add so the front of the home isn't a big flat wall. The space above the garage isn't really an attic, they build a second ceiling to try and create a...

If the sillcock end isn't in real conditioned space you kind of defeat it's purpose, having it buried in the wall is not the way to do it.

Hire a guy with a camera with a locator on it, he'll find it faster than you beating on the floor.

Fixed the same problem with my fence 2 years ago. The posts below grade were so rotted that they would not pull at all in one piece. Ended up digging them up and redoing them from scratch, moving then wasn't an option due to the amount of roots in the area.